🧩 A Parts – Based Approach
Informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS), through the BOUNCE® Lens
“I want to go to school…”
“I just can’t.”
For many children, both statements are true.
One part wants to learn.
Another feels unsafe.
One part wants friends.
Another fears rejection.
Through The BOUNCE Approach®, we understand these aren’t contradictory behaviours – they’re different parts of a child’s internal world trying to protect them.
Rather than asking:
“Why won’t they come in?”
we begin asking:
“What might this part be trying to protect?”
🌈 A Different Way of Understanding Children
A Parts – Based Approach helps practitioners look beyond behaviour to understand a child’s:
🖤 Nervous System
❤️ Relationships
🧡 Sensory Experiences
💚 Emotions
💙 Communication
💜 Identity
Rather than seeing school refusal, anxiety or emotional outbursts as the problem, you’ll begin recognising the protective parts that may be driving them.
🧠 Informed by IFS… Grounded in BOUNCE
Inspired by Internal Family Systems (IFS), this course has been carefully adapted through The BOUNCE Approach®.
You’ll explore how parts work connects with:
- Applied Neuroscience
- Attachment Theory
- Polyvagal Theory
- Sensory Processing
- Emotion Science
- Identity Development
Not as overwhelming theory – but as practical understanding you can apply immediately.
🌱 Understanding Before Intervention
Before introducing activities, you’ll discover:
✔️ Why protective parts develop.
✔️ Why children experience conflicting emotions.
✔️ How beliefs shape behaviour.
✔️ Why safety always comes before change.
Then you’ll learn how creative approaches such as drawing, storytelling, sand tray, guided meditation and symbolic play help children safely explore their inner world.
❤️ Helping Children Befriend Every Part of Themselves
The goal isn’t to get rid of difficult parts.
It’s to help children understand them.
Rather than fighting fear, anger or worry, children gradually learn to meet every part with curiosity and compassion.
Because when children discover that every part of them belongs, they often begin to believe that they belong too.
🚀 Available as a Course or Through Membership
A Parts – Based Approach is available as a standalone practitioner course (click here), perfect if you want to start using a compassionate, parts – informed approach straight away.
Or, join the BOUNCE Learning Portal to access this course alongside an expanding library of specialist training, practical interventions, assessments, downloadable resources and live professional support.
Every course shares one simple philosophy:
Understand the child before the intervention.
Because lasting change doesn’t begin by asking,
“How do I change this child?”
It begins by asking,
“What might this child be experiencing?”
✨ Discover A Parts – Based Approach today and help children understand that every part of them belongs.
